Best way to deal with JPGs in slideshow?

john1290 wrote on 12/3/2004, 11:53 AM

I'm putting my Vegas vacation pics on the tale end of my vaca video. They are all 5 Mega Pixel, 2 meg JPGs. The pics alone are 900 megs. If I leave them "as is" and let Vegas 5 render out the MPEG, will it crunch those down or should I first go into something like Photoshop and crunch them to 800x600. Speaking of which, what rez should I do them in? Right now, they're like 2xxx-19xx. Crunch them to 640x480? (target is television)

Is there a program that I can say..."Hey, here's all my pics.......convert them ALL to 640x480 and lemme know when you're done" vs loading/resizing each, individual pic?!

Thank you

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JJKizak wrote on 12/3/2004, 12:48 PM

You want to keep them around 500-600k or they will choke out your memory especially if you dump a ton of them on the timeline.
Not sure if there is a program to resize them all at once.

JJK

RalphM wrote on 12/3/2004, 1:18 PM

Irfanview is a free utility that can do batch processing on stills. Can resize, format convert, etc. Google on it.

kentwolf wrote on 12/3/2004, 1:52 PM

>>...Not sure if there is a program to resize them all at once.

Photoshop (as well as Paint Shop Pro) has automation to do this.

Once you set it up, it will pretty much do anything to all of your photos...very helpful for image sequences.

MJhig wrote on 12/3/2004, 2:24 PM

Also, you may want to consider saving to .png after resizing (or anything) rather than to .jpg again. Each time you re-save a .jpg to .jpg, you will suffer further degradation since .jpg is a lossy format.

MJ

john1290 wrote on 12/3/2004, 3:02 PM

What rez should I convert them to? (TV display is destination)

Thanks

MJhig wrote on 12/3/2004, 3:10 PM

It depends if you intend to do any zooming in on them.

Do a search for "stills" on this forum, you will find massive amounts of info.

MJ